This woman doesn't know to cook. Just when I think she can't get a recipe wrong, she'll use extra virgin olive oil in pancakes. She thinks that garam masala is a single spice and that, after baked onto sweet potatoes, go great with a parsley finish. Vegan cooking CAN be delicious, but she'll combine a bunch of kidney beans with about a tablespoon of oil, and, when commenting that they look dry, add another half tablespoon of oil. I imagine that they taste slightly better than chewing on dried concrete. Certainly, disordered eating is no laughing matter; I used vegetarianism myself as a cover for my eating disorder in high school. But if PBS wants to carry a program that will help people eat less meat or expand their culinary repertoire, the should go with somebody other than a woman who clearly got the show because she knows somebody "jazzy" in the entertainment industry. This food is so terrible that I'd rather starve! If a bunch of pureed cashews, some maple syrup and and a block of soft tofu actually tasted like cheesecake, people would use that recipe. But they don't, because what that tastes like is a vegan train wreck that makes you wish you had a hunk of flesh to sink your teeth into. Vegan cheese pizza with asparagus, radishes? I'll take a vial of cyanide. Learn what vegetables go together! Finally, I honestly can't tell if this woman actually thinks she knows how to cook. She says people can't tell her stuff is vegan, especially her husband. It's clear that her husband is lying to her because he loves her, and everyone else, I think, is just trying to escape her grip so that they can get some vegan, gluten free "sushi" from Whole Foods that isn't maple syrup and tamari sauce. Honey, your vegan "eggs" with nothing too savory and inadequate spices but full of regret isn't going to save a confined chicken. Why not read the Enchanted Broccoli Forest and Google yourself some spice family charts? Maybe learn how to flavor tofu? Use more garlic and nutritional yeast! And PLEASE actually have more than a gram of fat per serving. Besides your food being like some personal hell for people who loved McDonald's a little too much, you're taking up valuable PBS programming space that would much better be occupied by the many actually talented vegetarian and vegan chefs.
